When I was 12, I decided that I don’t want to be schooled anymore in the school system. I started to leave the school system when I was 13, and when I was 14 I discovered the Web. But before when I was 14, there were two years where I had access to the Internet and when I’m not satisfied with the education system. So I discovered this Gutenberg Project on the Internet.
The Gutenberg project has been running for more than 20 years at a time. It is a lot of voluntary people from the civic society taking the public domain books that has expired, the copyright, which means they were all done before the first World War. They’re the classics from Freud, from Darwin, from all the thinkers around the turn of the century, also literature, also poetry, Shakespeare.
They type all those printed books that’s out of copyright and put them free online for anybody, including this teenager, to read. That is the basic of my education. Without those selfless people sharing this kind of knowledge, it wouldn’t be possible for me to go out of the school system and begin an education of my own.